Russell's of Broadway Cotswolds

For many years the Lygon Arms was the talk of Broadway, a chocolate box of a Cotswolds village in Worcestershire. Today it’s all about Russell’s, an award-winning restaurant with rooms housed in the former furniture showroom of Sir Gordon Russell. Creative dishes include terrine of confit duck with rum-marinated figs on toasted brioche, and roast rack of free-range pork with prune-stuffed apples, honey-glazed parsnips, braised savoy cabbage and sage gravy. Diners are a mix of local ladies lunching in killer heels, posh farmers and weekending city slickers. Which is probably why it gets away with close-to-London prices for the majority of the options at dinner, with a few notable exceptions: for example, glasses of very good house champagne (Michel Guilleminot) for only £7.95. Breakfast is delicious – excellent porridge, full English and kippers, to name three options. Sunday lunch is also better value (£22.95 for three courses). Upstairs, seven chic bedrooms feature things such as Arts and Crafts four-poster beds, flatscreen TVs and honesty bars. The details Doubles at weekends from £148, two-course dinners from £12 excluding wine (01386- 853555; russellsofbroadway.co.uk). Online Article